Definition of Phyllopods

1. phyllopod [n] - See also: phyllopod

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phyllopods

phylloid
phylloids
phyllolepid
phyllolepids
phyllomania
phyllome
phyllomes
phyllomic
phyllomorphosis
phyllophagan
phyllophagous
phyllophorous
phyllopod
phyllopoda
phyllopodous
phyllopods (current term)
phylloquinone
phylloquinone reductase
phyllorhine
phyllos
phyllosilicate
phyllosilicates
phyllosoma
phyllosphere
phyllostome
phyllostomes
phyllostomid
phyllostomids
phyllotactic
phyllotactic arrangement

Literary usage of Phyllopods

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geology of the English Lake District by John Postlethwaite (1906)
"... appears to contain a certain amount of lime associated with a black carbonaceous substance. List of phyllopods found in the Skiddaw Slates ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The Entomostraca, Trilobites, and phyllopods come before the higher Decapod Crustacea, and of these the highest form— the Brachyura—appears much the latest. ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1891)
"If this is correct, then the explanation of the Nauplius stage must be afforded by the phyllopods themselves, and it is no use looking beyond this group for ..."

4. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"No parasitic phyllopods are known. The distribution of all species is apt ... A certain pool may swarm with phyllopods, while others near at hand will not ..."

5. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1880)
"... species are not an inch long ; Ostra- coids of ten times the length and a thousand times the bulk of modern kinds ; and so also with the phyllopods. ..."

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